"I must go and see if everything is fine with the show," Hohlbein excused himself. "Also, I want to see if Pepe is okay... You don't mind, do you? I'll be back right away."
The others nodded, and he left.
Happosai still struggled within his bonds. "Think about it, Ranma," he said. "With these amulets, we can make our wishes come true. How about it: You can wish for your curse to be removed! What do you say?"
"What are you babbling about, old geezer?" Ranma asked. "There's a reason we were searching for the amulets... and now that I know who I was in a previous life, there's no way I want to throw away my girl side. True, I'm still not happy about turning into a girl... but I don't think you would understand it, so why do I even care?"
Akane was reaching out to take her amulet...
The moment she touched it, she and Ami were being pushed back by an invisible force.
"What the...?" Ranma shouted.
Strands of darkness were flowing out of the amulet and formed a menacing figure.
A deep growl came from the being as it made a step forward. It looked like a black panther, but it was made of pure darkness, and its eyes were a gleaming red.
Ranma sweated and almost got ready to run.
'It's not a real panther, it's only a monster, it's okay Ranma, you can handle monsters like that...'
"A Youma," Ami gasped. "Quick! Transform!"
Ami raised her pen and the other grasped their amulets (Akane after quickly picking it up from the ground).
"Mercury Star Power, Make Up!" "Aquarius Zodiac Power, Make Up!" "Leo Zodiac Power, Make Up!"
The transformations were complete. Akane now was wearing a fuku with a brown skirt. Her mallet 'Simba' was resting in her hands.
Ami smirked. "You know, I read about it in a hidden data within my computer... that mallet used to be the original Sailor Leo's main weapon! She was an expert of pulling weapons out of thin air."
Ami grinned. "Looks like I already used her powers even before I knew that I was a Senshi."
The shadow panther snarled and slashed at them. Claw marks of darkness came flying towards them, and they jumped away just in time.
One of the slashes had grazed Aquarius' skirt, and a good part of it got ripped off.
Happosai (who still couldn't move away) stared. "Pretty..."
Aquarius went red with rage. "All right, cat or no cat, no one damages my clothes without my permission... Water Control!"
Out of a nearby tent, the elephants' drinking water came flying and surrounded the vicious beast. The pressure made it yowl in pain before it broke free.
Mercury quickly scanned the monster with her visor. "It's not really a Youma," she realized. "It's just a monster being made of shadows... and someone else is controlling them!"
"Quick, find out where that person is," Sailor Leo shouted and stormed towards the panther. "SIMBA SMASH!"
The attack pounded the monster deep into the earth. Several cracks appeared in the ground. Leo smirked. "Looks like I won."
But suddenly, the shadows came flowing from under the mallet, floated behind Sailor Leo and once again formed the black panther.
"This is gonna be harder than I thought..." Leo murmured.
"I got it," Mercury shouted. "The being controlling this shadow beast is hiding... up there!" And she gestured towards a tree.
"I got it," Ranma shouted. "Moko Takabisha!" The ki bullet flew up to the treetop.
A second later, a dark shape came jumping out of the tree, dodging the attack. It was a human figure, dressed in tattered rags, with dry, grey skin.
"This is an actual Youma," Mercury said. "You were the one controlling the shadows, right?"
The Youma grinned. "So, you found me out, eh? Well, I must say, you're a clever girl, Mercury... But that won't help you! I knew you'd come here and provided Leo's amulet with this little trap... Shadow Beast! Kill them!"
The panther roared and jumped towards Sailor Aquarius, scaring the martial artist Senshi with it's cat-like figure, and got ready to kill her with a single bite.
"Oh no, you don't!" Leo yelled. "Mercury! I give you my power!"
She closed her eyes. "Leo Power!"
On her forehead, the Zodiac sign of Leo lit up. Ami could feel Akane's powers flowing through her body.
She raised her hands. "WHITE LION!"
The freezing water shooting out of her hands formed a huge shape... a big lion made entirely from ice. He jumped to the ground and roared. He towered over the smaller shadow beast which nervously backed off.
The ice lion jumped at the beast and exploded in a shower of ice shards. The shadow beast yowled as it got blasted to pieces.
"That won't change a thing," the Youma snarled. "I can always create new beasts from the shadows. You have no chance against me... For I am Youma Duplicas, your executioner!"
"Aw, shut up!" a voice behind her yelled. Duplicas turned around and only saw a fist flying towards her face. Then, she felt only pain...
The force of Aquarius' punch threw her back, and she hit the trunk of the tree she was hiding in hardly.
Ranma concentrated the water around her hands. "Moko Takabisha Revised: Lance of Water!"
And as she shot the ki-infused water ball towards her enemy, a trail of water made the attack look like a lance that pierced the heart of the monster.
Duplicas turned to dust before their eyes. "Fools," she said during her decay. "You may have beaten me, but there are more of myself out there... just you wait, the end will come!"
And then its face fell apart.
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